Lectionary blog for Sept. 18 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Amos 8:4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16:1-13 As baseball season is winding down and the pennant races are heating…
Lectionary blog for Sept. 11 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 32:7-14; Psalm 51:1-10; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-10 “Is God a grown-up or a parent?” Writing in the Catholic Digest,…
Lectionary blog for Sept. 4 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 1; Philemon 1-21; Luke 14:25-33 I grew up attending a congregation somewhat loosely affiliated with the Southern Baptist…
Lectionary blog for Aug. 28 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 25:6-7; Psalm 112; Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14 When you’re pastor of the Lutheran church in Athens, Ga., where…
Lectionary blog for Aug. 21 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 58:9b-14; Psalm 103:1-8; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17 As a graduate of a non-Lutheran seminary, I spent a year at the…
Lectionary blog for Aug. 14 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 23:23-29; Psalm 82; Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56 Some years ago a man I knew in one of my congregations had…
Lectionary blog for Aug. 7 Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 15:1-6; Psalm 33:12-22; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 One Sunday morning about 20 years ago I slipped out of our…
Lectionary blog for July 31 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23; Psalm 49:1-12; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21 A few years ago I took a youth group to Lutheridge…
Lectionary blog for July 24 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 18:20-32; Psalm 138; Colossians 2:6-19; Luke 11:1-13 The summer my younger son turned 14 he played on an AAU basketball…
Lectionary blog for July 17 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 18:1-10a; Psalm 15; Colossians 1:15-18; Luke 10:38-42 Whenever I hear this story, especially the part about Martha loudly complaining to…
Lectionary blog for July 10 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Psalm 25:1-10; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37 C.K. Chesterton is probably best known to most people as the writer of…
Lectionary blog for July 3 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 66:10-14; Psalm 66:1-9; Galatians 6:1-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 When I was in college, I worked on a tobacco farm in…
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